Matt Painter yells instructions to his players as they take on Indianapolis Wednesday, October 30, 2013, at Mackey Arena on the campus of Purdue University. Purdue beat Indianapolis 80-73.

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Nathan Baird
nbaird@jconline.com

Many Big Ten Conference men's basketball coaches are wary of what new defensive rules will mean for their sport.

Purdue coach Matt Painter has seen it up close. The Boilermakers and Indianapolis combined for 46 fouls and 61 free throws in Purdue's exhibition opener on Tuesday.

"If you're telling me the way the games are going to be called in exhibition games are the way they're going to call them in the Big Ten," Painter said, "we're going to have a lot of good players watching basketball." ...